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Sleepout for homeless
Sleepout for the homeless
13-10-2008 Last Saturday night there was a sleepout to raise awareness of homelessness at Melba Park in Lilydale. Greens Councillor and candidate Samantha Dunn and her family participated. She took along a large cardboard box on which she wrote homelessness statistics from census night 2006.
* 16% were sleeping out
* 45% stayed with friends or relatives temporarily
* 21% were in boarding houses
* 19% stayed in hostels, shelters and refuges. More details
December State Council
